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Today. i think we can maybe thank them the most, the political leaders. [ applause ] >> president trump at an event in the white house talking to coal miners and supporters talking about rolling back obama era regulations on coal, part of his campaign promise he said to roll back regulations. at the beginning of his remarks you may not have heard because the audio was spotty. the president said, quote, we had an interesting news conference, depidn't we? we did indeed. president trump held a news conference in which he stressed that his administration is not in chaos, and is, in fact, running l...

Me, it will be heavily censored and redacted and the only way to get that information declassified is with the permission of the white house. imagine, if you will, something about president trump and they have to a grow to disclose it to the american people. we should have an independent transparent and open hearing on this whole question. >> senator dick did you remember bin, democrat from the land of lincoln , thank you so much. appreciate your time, sir. >> good to be with you, jake. >> an unusual presidential news conference by just about any stand 5rd, president trump spend morgue than an...

Counter terrorism, draining the swamp. do you think it would have been nice to have seen some passion about those issues instead of don lemon's ratings, which by the way are pretty good? >> i think, i think clearly the way he executed what he did today, that's not something i would recommend. but clearly it works for him. he did that throughout the campaign. he's doing that in the administration and while i understand campaigning is different from governing, he has seen that as a way that is successful for him. we did get some positive news out of this today. we learned -- by the way, the news...

Democrat. what did you make of the president's news conference today? >> it was hard to follow. there were so many different things he said. it clearly was a spur of the moment decision. and what i think frankly we should reflect on is we're deal with some extremely serious questions. 17 different intelligence agencies tell us the russians did a cyber attack on the american electoral system during the course of this campaign. and the president dismissed it as a ruse. he had to accept the resignation of his national security advisor for conversation with the russian ambassador and he seems to d...

Dear leader. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." let's take a listen right now. we're getting some footage in from president trump signing a bill. jim accosta, what are we looking at here? >> reporter: yeah, jake, you're seeing the president there in the oval office meeting with some coal miners, mitch mcconnell, joe manchin, democrat from west virginia, rand paul, senator from kentucky and others. and this is essentially an event where the president is announcing that they are rolling back some obama era regulations that were aimed at going after coal mine pollution. and the pr...